 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations,...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse' of fame, should add to their reason,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 466 pages
...one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations,...surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmost importance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 458 pages
...impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would . be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations,...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations,...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept a.way by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations,...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason, and... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations,...oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. — Johnson. DLXIX. Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffus'd; As poison heals in just proportion... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations,...greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, sSul oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.—Johnson. DL.XIX. Wealth in the gross is... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1830 - 416 pages
...one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations,...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and... | |
 | 1832 - 872 pages
...result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet these petty opérations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest...oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings." We shall therefore commence with the most simple and general principles, and by proceeding through... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the D ` being?. It is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have any intention of deviating from... | |
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If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued,... 
